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Many people think of Cloud Run just as a way of hosting websites. Cloud Run is great at that, but there's so much more you can do with it. Here we'll explore how you can use Cloud Run and BigQuery together to create an inventory management system. I'm using a subset of the Iowa Liquor Control Board data set to create a smaller inventory file for my fictional store. In my inventory management scenario we get a csv file dropped into Cloud Storage to bulk load new inventory.

Streaming analytics is crucial to modern business – it opens up new product opportunities and creates massive operational efficiencies. In many cases, it’s the difference between creating an outstanding customer experience versus a poor one – or losing the customer altogether. However, in the typical enterprise, only a small team has the core skills needed to gain access and create value from streams of data.

While there has been some incremental improvements in the last few years, there has been nothing significant recently - and I think there are four clear reasons for that. Firstly, there has been a lot of consolidation in the industry recently. When that happens, behemoth vendors focus far more on selling than building new products that are going to disrupt the industry.

Cloudera Operational Database is an operational database-as-a-service that brings ease of use and flexibility to Apache HBase. Cloudera Operational Database enables developers to quickly build future-proof applications that are architected to handle data evolution. In the previous blog posts, we looked at application development concepts and how Cloudera Operational Database (COD) interacts with other CDP services.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of BigQuery materialized views. Materialized views (MV’s) are precomputed views that periodically cache results of a query to provide customers increased performance and efficiency.

Business analysts working with larger and larger data sets are finding traditional BI methods can't keep up with their need for speed. BigQuery BI Engine is designed to meet this need by accelerating the most popular dashboards and reports that connect to BigQuery. With the freshest data available, your analysts can identify trends faster, reduce risk, match the pace of customer demand, even improve operational efficiency in an ever-changing business climate.